between(6) Games between(6)NAME
between - a game about consciousness and isolation
SYNOPSIS
between
DESCRIPTION
Between is a video game written by Jason Rohrer about consciousness and isolation.
Between is a multiplayer-only art game. As a result, some people like it, many people do not get it and some people hate it. Search the
internet for the author's name and the game title to find some discussion about the game before dismissing it. Some sample discussions and
reactions are listed below.
You can play Between with a friend or stranger over the Internet. Both players will see a field, sky, clouds, a square structure and a
shimmering tower. The interface reveals the initial controls (reference below). The players place red-green-blue blocks on the field and
pile them upwards. Placing blocks over the shimmering tower causes pleasant tones while the colours match. Soon enough the players will not
be able to match any more blocks with the complex patterns and colour variety in the tower. To the left is a bed indicating sleep. To the
right is a bright room indicating wakefulness. Cycling through the dream and wakefulness states gives players three different realities in
which to build the shimmering tower. Eventually in the state between dream and reality, mysterious interactions between the two players
block placements and reality cycling patterns will result in blocks with new colours and patterns appearing on the field. These new blocks
can then be used to match more and more of the shimmering tower over time...
The most interesting part about this game is the emotions it evokes within the player of the game. The ultra-low-res pixel art helps here,
by not being too distracting and by leaving plenty room for viewer interpretation.
USAGE
Between has no command-line options.
The left and right arrow keys move left and right.
The spacebar is used to place or grab blocks.
The b/n keys are used to change the colour of the placed blocks.
The s/w keys are used to sleep/wake the player.
The Esc key is used to quit the game.
The game resolution and use of fullscreen or a window can be set by editing the files in /etc/between.
SEE ALSO
The website: http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/rohrer-game
http://www.destructoid.com/jason-rohrer-s-new-game-between-is-out-111382.phtml
http://mile222.com/2008/11/jason-rohrers-latest-game-between-leaves-me-unenthused/
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3853/persuasive_games_disjunctive_play.php
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/42515
http://kotaku.com/5096755/disjunctive-play-and-otherness-between
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tennix -- A funny 2D tennis game with network play support
SYNOPSIS
tennix [options]
DESCRIPTION
tennix is a top-view 2D tennis game. It features a two-player game mode and a single-player mode against the computer.
This is the SDL port of a DOS game written in 2003. The original game can still be found on the web at http://thp.io/2003/tennix/
CONTROLS
You can select the controls directly in the menu. Usually, in two-player game mode, player 1 plays using W, S, D, E, F and player 2 plays
using O, L, K, I, J. You can also play using mouse, gamepad or Joystick.
When using network play, you have to configure your opponent with the input device "Network player", and make sure that the opponent does
the same thing (but in reverse).
P (Un)pause the game
F Switch between windowed and fullscreen mode
OPTIONS -f, --fullscreen
Start the game in fullscreen mode
-b, --benchmark
Start the game in benchmark/attract mode (AI vs AI, auto-start, no menu)
-m, --master <IP-of-slave>
Network play mode; play as master and send input over to slave via the given IP
-s, --slave <IP-of-master>
Network play mode; play as slave and send input over to master via the given IP
-h, --help
Show summary of options
HOMEPAGE
http://icculus.org/tennix/
AUTHOR
The author and current maintainer of Tennix is Thomas Perl (thp.io/about).
This manual page was written by Andrea Colangelo (warp10@ubuntu.com) for the Ubuntu system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version pub-
lished by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
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